asia snapshot 2015 #2
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Asia Snapshot 2015A mashup of research, trends and
interesting people in Asia.Issue #2 Published at
www.CallumLaing.com“Connecting Leaders”
My usual disclaimers apply: This is not intended to be a comprehensive guide and the hard work of finding this data was done by other people who deserve all the credit. I have merely cherry picked the stuff that stood out for me and made me say ‘ooh’.
“Welcome to the second edition of Asia Snapshots.I hope you find it interesting and perhaps it will spark some ideas of how you could get more involved in this amazing region.If you’re new to this report, then it is intended for anyone looking to do business in Asia. It is quite literally a mashup of other peoples research, interspersed with highlighting some cool individuals that I’ve come across along the way.”
- Callum
@laingcallum”
“Be bold and yet be meticulous
in everything you do”
Jerome Lim, Director of Ming Fa Fishball
“Believe in yourself. If you don’t, no one else will.”
Christine Edwards, Founder of Honeycombers
What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?
http://www.economistinsights.com/business-strategy/analysis/redrawing-asean-map
“ASEAN is the Association of South East Asian Nations
(about 626m people)”
Padmini Pandya, Strategic Business
Planning of SapientNitro
What’s the best piece of advice you ever received? “Get out of your own way.”
Adrien Choux, Founder of The Chinese Timekeeper
Who inspires you? “Guy Laliberte (founder of Cirque du Soleil). Visionary, passionate, philanthropist and a great poker player … quite an
inspiration!”
http://www.economistinsights.com/business-strategy/analysis/redrawing-asean-map
“Interesting to note the homogenisation of the ASEAN consumer”
http://www.freetheworld.com/2013/EFW2013-complete.pdf
Pretty colours. But not that ‘free’ in Asia
yet.
Correlation of wealth and freedom
http://insights.fb.com/2014/10/08/coming-of-age-on-screens/
“Don’t worry, be happy.
Indonesia & India seeing the positives in
Facebook and beyond.”
“Doing business is about developing trust, especially in Asia. Think ‘how can I help’ without expectation of return”
Sam Lau, Founder of Total Loyalty
“’Nothing in life comes easy’.
It reminds me that I must always work hard, be determined and persistent.”
Jia En Teo, Co-Founder of Roomorama
What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?
www.newzoo.com/insights/newzoo-report-1-1bn-southeast-asian-games-market-to-double-by-2017
“Amongst other things, Indonesia is the fastest growing Games market. Maybe that’s why they’re happy?”
https://www.techinasia.com/asia-dominates-gaming-ipos-set-earn-45b-annual-revenue-2018-report/
2014 saw a record US$24 billion worth of video game company exits worldwide in 2014
Asia accounted for over half the games IPOs in 2014
“Asia is the number one games market in terms of revenue”
The number of Chinese women in senior management positions has recently doubled, with 51% of those jobs held by females, making China a standout in Asia.
Some 550 publicly-traded companies, or about 21%, have women on their boards.
China has two of only four companies in the world with all-female boards..
http://fortune.com/2015/01/15/the-number-of-chinese-women-in-top-corporate-jobs-is-exploding
“Half of the world’s self-made female billionaires are Chinese”
www.economistinsights.com/marketing-consumer/analysis/rise-and-online/multimedia
Women in China
“That the failures I had were in fact the best things that ever happened to me.”
Mouna Aouri Langendorf, Founder of Woomentum
What have you just learnt recently that blew you away?
“There is no point doing what you are doing without an end game. Choose where you want to be, what you want to do and work out a way to get there.”
Charlie Brazier, Founder of BW Furniture
Women in China
www.economistinsights.com/marketing-consumer/analysis/rise-and-online/multimedia
www.economistinsights.com/marketing-consumer/analysis/rise-and-online/multimedia
Women in China
https://www.techinasia.com/asia-biggest-series-a-rounds-2014/
“Startups in China are seeing some funding lovin’.”
https://www.techinasia.com/
vc-investments-china-skyrocketed-2014-doubling-previous-record
“In fact all VC funding has trebled since 2013”
“Never take ‘No’ for an answer.”
Talenia Phua Gajardo, CEO of The Artling
“Communication is about what other people understand, not what you say.
Build outcomes, not outputs.”
Simon Kemp, Regional Managing Partner of We Are Social
What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?
https://www.techinasia.com/wechat-investment-fund-10-million-users/Pic from tomsguide.com
One year after launch, WeChat’s investment fund has 10 million users who’ve banked over $16 billion!
“Banks, sit up
and take note!”
“Singapore remains one of the best places to do business, not just in ASEAN but the World.”
www.economistinsights.com/business-strategy/analysis/redrawing-asean-map
Singapore ranks 2nd in Global competitiveness
global-indices.insead.edu/documents/INSEADGTCIreport2014.pdf
“Globally, CEO’s always think their country is the hardest to recruit quality talent…”
http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2015/jan/07/singapore-building-india-city-andhra-pradesh
“The go-getting entrepreneurialism of Singapore has led its government to agree to support the Indian state Andhra Pradesh in building a new capital city. It will be a stupendous 7,235 square kilometres, 10 times the size of Singapore’s own 716 square kilometres. The new city is expected to cost £10.7bn ($16.5bn).”
“Singapore doesn’t lack ambition. But it does lack land. Creating new cities in China and India makes for a perfect collaboration.”
Mobile Internet in India 16x slower than Singapore
https://www.techinasia.com/mobile-internet-16-times-faster-singapore-than-india/
“Mobile penetration in India is currently at 75%”
BNP Paribas http://goo.gl/aeb6rd
“India leading the way in female entrepreneurs, but according to Nasscom only 1 in 17 Indian tech companies are started by woman.”
However, in terms of new wealth it is actually India’s neighbours that stole the glory.
Pakistan and Sri Lanka were in the top 5 gainers of ultra high networth individuals gaining 34
and 25% respectively.
www.wealthx.com
“If you care for others, your consciousness expands and you’re happy. If you care only for yourself, your consciousness contracts and you’re miserable.”
Jack Sim, Founder of World Toilet Organization
What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?
“’Enjoy what you do’.
It is easier to say, ‘Do what you enjoy’ but we should remember that we can choose to enjoy anything we do as well.”
Masami Soto, Founder of Buy One Give One
www.wealthx.com
Pakistan and Sri Lanka were in the top 5 gainers of ultra high networth individuals gaining 34 and
25% respectiviely. China actually declind
Wealthx.com
China actually declined in Ultra High Networth individuals last year despite churning out 159 millionaires a day.
Forbes counted a record 1,645 billionaires with a total net worth of US$6.4 trillion, up from
1,426 last year.
16 are in Singapore
And there are 35 million millionaires around the world. Give or take…
https://www.consumerbarometer.com/en/insights/?countryCode=GLhttps://www.techinasia.com/google-asia-true-mobilefirst-region/
• Asian countries have the highest rate of internet users who go online exclusively using a smartphone.
• Japan and South Korea are the two countries with the highest frequency of internet usage in the world.
“35% of Malaysians only access the
internet through their mobile device!”
What have you recently learnt that blew you away?
“Did you know that Bukit Timah’s Nature Reserve in Singapore has more species of trees than the entire North American continent? Talk about a green dot!”
Habiba Raffa, Founder of Ayelli
What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?“People remember generosity.
Be generous, be kind, be direct, be remembered.”
Howard Lo, Founder of Standing Sushi Bar
“I hope you enjoyed this. Please feel free to share it with anyone you think would be interested.We’ll be back later in the year to share what’s new”- [email protected]/in/callumlaing